Automobile-body.



J. B. ENTZ.

AUTOMOBILE BODY.

APPLICATION FILED NOV. 20. 1913.

Patented May 18, 1915.

JUSTUS B. ENTZ,

or CLEVELAND; onro, assrenon To run WHITE COMPANY, OF

CLEVELAND, 01110, a ooaroaermxr OF OHIO. I

AUTOMOBILE-BODY;

Specification of Letters Fetent.

Application filed November earns. Seria1lq0.8b2,013.

To all whom it may concern.

Be it known that I, JUs'rUs B. En'rz, a citizen of the United States, residingat Cleveland, in the county of Guyahoga and State of Ohio, have invented acertain new for the required strength than the large automobile bodies which have heretofore been used.

The invention resides in the novel conpointed out in the claims.

In the drawings, Figure lis a plan View; and Fig. 2 is a side elevation of an automobile body constructed according to the present invention.

The body shell A, if so it may be termed, is or may be of any ordinary construction, except for the location-of the door openings relative to one another and except for the fact that, because the door openings are not placed opposite one another, as is commonly the case, smaller side sills a may be used than has heretofore been required to build the body of the required strength.

At the rear end of the body is a seat B extending from side to side, as is the usual practice. In front of this seat, and at a sufficient distance therefrom to give the required foot and leg room between them is a permanently placed intermediate seat C, which, in .a body designed fora left hand driving car, will extend fromthe right side of the body over toward, but not to the left side thereof,sufiicient space being left be-' tween the left end of the seat and the left side of the body to serve as an aisle G- through which the passengers may pass from one part of the body to the other. Nearer the front of the car is the drivers seat D, which, in a left hand drive car, extends from the left side about half way across the body, thereby leaving between'the right end of the seat and the right side of the body a wide aisle H through which passengers may conveniently pass.

In the right side ofthe car transversely in line with the drivers seat is a door open-" ing closable by door E. This door opening and door are located quite a bit back of the position usually occupied 'by the so-called fore 'door of a touring ca body,the usual position being. wholly in f out of the drivers seat. By carrying this opening rearward,

as it is in the body as shown, space is left outside of the body and in front of said door in which a spare tire may be carried so. that it will not interfere withthe use of said door. In the opposite side of the car just behind the drivers single seat is another opening closedby a door F.

A. car with the seats and doors constructed and arranged as shown and described, While very convenient for general use, is particularly adapted for touring purposes. When touring there will be in the car usually two persons capable of driving it, commonly a hired chauffeur and the owner. These can exchange places at any time without having to 'get out of the car to do it. A person may get into the car from either side thereof, and, when in, may go to any seat. In the ordinary construction, as heretofore used, two folding seats of some specific construction or another, have 1 zen located between the rear seat and the drivers seat, and on opposite sides of the car. The exigencies of construction to make them folding seats, render it impossible to'make these seats very comfortable. They usually have to be folded up, one or both of them, to allow passengers to get into or out of the body. But with a seat arranged as seat C is arranged, it may be nicely upholstered and'made very comfortable. It occupies a partof the body which is as little subject to vibration as any. The absence of a seat alongside of the drivers seat accomplishes several useful purposes, to wit, (a) it leaves an absolutely unobstructed forward View for one ofthe passengers sitting in seat C, and a nearly unobstructed View for the other passenger sitting in said seat; and (b) the space in the front end of the body which would ordinarily be required for foot room, if there were a seat alongside of the drivers seat is available for carrying luggage. Luggage in this place is out of the way,that is to say, it is not under foot, as it always is in touringcar bodies as they have heretofore been made. Moreover, when doors in oppo- Patent ed May 18, 1915.

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on automobile body having through openings are nos-located oppositely but ooeeed one in edvenoe of the other, e (amending from one side of the m (the other, e driver sseet located in of 'one'of the door openings and tieinsvei'seiy in. line with the, other ooi' o i ieoing which (ii'ivers seat extends from the firsirnemedi side pm Way only across the oofiy, and an intermediate seat located. be kind last mentioned. door opening and exionding from the side in which that door is looeteoi part way only across the o 1' eowerd the other side thereof.

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re in the piesenoo of two Witnesses JUSTUS B. ENTZZ. Witnesses THERSTON, I L'PoBLiEs.

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